Amazon EC2 as load balanced/failover solution

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Hi All,

I'm thinking of an idea but not sure the pros/cons of it.

At the moment, we are hosting our website on a dedicated server. As a failover/load balanced solution, I'm thinking to use Amazon EC2+EBS.

The files can be rsync and mysql can be setup as master-master replication

When the load is high, I can up the machine, given sometime to "sync" and load balanced the traffic there.

is it do-able? any link I can read more on this?

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